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I'm working on a desktop machine with plenty of screen real-estate, so I don't need my windows' title bars to merge with the global menu bar when the windows are maximised. Moreover, I'm working on a dual-screen set-up, so the fact that a window is maximised doesn't mean that it's the only window visible.
Before Unity I'd switch to a maximised window by clicking on its title bar, or close the window, even though it isn't focused, by clicking on its close button; I can no longer do this because the title bar is missing and the global menu bar is empty on that screen. This isn't a huge problem - I can click on some of the window's chrome to focus it - but it's unintuitive and it's forcing me to relearn my mousing behaviour.
I'd like to turn-off the merging of title and global menu bars, but how?
I simply want the title bar of the window NOT to merge with the top panel whenever I maximize a Window. The global menu should stay in the top panel as far as I am concerned. Current it maximizes like this
I want it to maximize like this (In that screeny the unmaximized Window has been resized to take rest of the space)


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On 8th May 1945, the Allied Powers formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the Armed Forces of Nazi Germany and the end of the Third Reich. The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, made a radio broadcast at 3.00pm announcing that the Second World War in Europe was at last at an end. This was VE – or Victory in Europe – Day.
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More than one million people poured onto the streets of the United Kingdom in celebration. In London, huge crowds, many dressed in red, white and blue, thronged the city's monuments and gathered outside Buckingham Palace to cheer as the King and Queen appeared eight times on the balcony over the day and into the evening.
In the suburbs, street parties were thrown, fancy dress parades were held for children, and many people went to church to thank God for victory.
In the evening, many London landmarks, such as the Houses and Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Nelson's Column, were floodlit specially for the occasion. Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret - escorted by Guards Officers - left the palace and mingled anonymously with the great crowds outside, joining in the celebrations.
The exuberance of the day was though tempered by the fact that, for many, this would be a time of sadness and reflection. Because of the ongoing war in Japan, many other parts of the world would not be able to join in the celebrations. It would not be until the Japanese surrendered to the Allies on 15th August that the Second World War would finally come to an end.
Westminster Abbey played its full part on VE Day.
After making his broadcast officially announcing Germany's surrender, Winston Churchill went to the House of Commons to make a short address and then moved that the House attend St Margaret's Church, Westminster - the parish church of the House of Commons. The House then rose and followed the Speaker to the Church.
Sir, with your permission to move 'That this House do now attend at the church of St. Margaret, Westminister, to give humble and reverent thanks to Almighty God for our deliverance from the threat of German domination.'
In the Abbey church itself, short services of 'thanksgiving for victory' were held every hour from 9.00am to 10.00pm. An estimated 25,000 people attended during the day, with the Lord Chancellor and the House of Lords attending at 3.00pm.
Let us therefore offer high praise and thanksgiving to the God of all mercies for the success which He has granted to us and to our Allies: for the faith which has upheld us through the years of danger and suffering; for the skill of our leaders and the valour and steadfastness of sailors, soldiers and airmen; for the hope that we are about the enter upon a righteous and abiding peace; for the holy memory and high example of that great company of men and women, known and unknown, whose faith and courage God has inspired and used.
Members of the congregation were invited 'to join heartily in the responses'.
You can see a copy of the order of service from 1945 here.
A service was also held in the Abbey the following Sunday, 13th May, when the standards of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were laid on the High Altar to symbolise the loyalty of the whole Empire during the war.
Westminster Abbey has continued to mark VE Day regularly. Special services of remembrance were held on the 40th, 50th, 60th and 70th anniversaries, with thanks given for the reconciliation of former enemies and prayers said for lasting peace.
Most recently, the service in 2015, marking the 70th anniversary, was attended by HM The Queen, accompanied by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and members of the Royal Family, alongside veterans and their families, representatives of Allied nations and Commonwealth countries, and government and military representatives.
At the start of the service, The Queen laid a wreath of poppies at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior. Her message read:
In memory of the Glorious Dead
In memory of the Glorious Dead
Actor Simon Russell Beale read an extract from the VE Day Speech of His Majesty King George VI, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, gave an address recalling the 'long, hard and perilous' years of war and giving thanks for the reconciliation in Europe that followed.
As the Royal Family and members of the congregation departed at the end of the service, the Abbey's ten bells were 'fired' – or struck simultaneously – 70 times, in an echo of the firing of church bells in celebration across the country on VE Day.
"The @Wabbey Bells are fired (struck simultaneously) 70 times,
— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) May 10, 2015
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The Abbey had itself endured considerable disruption throughout the years of conflict. In 1939, at the outbreak of war, preparations were made to protect the church, and many of its treasures were evacuated for safety to country houses. These included the 13th century Westminster Retable (England's oldest altarpiece), gilt bronze and oak tomb effigies, tapestries, manuscripts and statues. The Coronation Chair was sent for safety to Gloucester Cathedral and the Abbey's unique collection of funeral effigies was stored in Piccadilly tube station. Some 60,000 sandbags were used to protect royal and medieval tombs which could not be moved.
The Pyx Chamber, in the cloisters, was used as the Abbey ARP [Air Raid Precautions] headquarters; College Hall and the Library were used by teams of fire watchers; and the museum in the Undercroft was made ready as a dressing station and dispensary.
The worst air raid at the Abbey was on the night of 10th-11th May 1941. Clusters of incendiaries fell on the roof of the Abbey and in the precincts. Most were quickly put out by the fire watchers and volunteers but one on the lantern roof, in the centre part of the Abbey, burned through the lead and lodged in a beam and could not easily be reached. By this time water supplies were very low. Flames shot up 40 feet into the sky. Fortunately the burning timbers and molten lead fell into the mostly open area below (where monarchs are enthroned at a coronation) and the fire was more easily extinguished. Lead splattered on the pulpit and choir stalls, but the medieval Cosmati pavement and tombs in this area had been boarded over earlier in the war so were undamaged.
Central to the Abbey's commemorations of those who died in the service of their country is the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, whose body was brought home from the battlefields of northern France and buried in the nave in 1920. His grave stands as a remarkable tribute to the fallen of both World Wars and conflicts since.
At the eastern end of the Lady Chapel is a chapel dedicated to the men of the Royal Air Force who died in the Battle of Britain in 1940. The chapel was unveiled by King George VI on 10 July 1947.
The magnificent stained glass window, by Hugh Easton, contains the badges of the fighter squadrons that took part in the Battle. In the central section are the Royal Arms, the badge of the Fleet Air Arm and the badge and motto of the RAF:
Per Ardua ad Astra
(Through struggle to the Stars)
In two of the bottom panels are words from Shakespeare's Henry V:
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
A Roll of Honour, illuminated by Daisy Alcock, contains the names of 1,497 pilots and aircrew killed or mortally wounded during the Battle. The names include those of 47 Canadians, 47 New Zealanders, 35 Poles, 24 Australians, 20 Czechoslovaks, 17 South Africans, 6 Belgians and one American, as well as those from the United Kingdom and Colonies.
The civilians of the Second World War are remembered with permanent memorials in the Abbey, too. On display in the nave are three rolls of honour to those whose lives were lost.
The Civilian War Dean Roll of Honour 1939-45 records the names of those killed by enemy action during the Second World War. The seven original leather-bound volumes contain printed details of 66,375 fatalities. At a service on 23rd May 2017 to mark the centenary of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission two supplementary books were processed through the Abbey and presented to the Dean at the High Altar. These contain several hundred new names uncovered by recent research, many of whom died overseas and had been missed from the original listings.
The Women's Voluntary Service roll of honour lists the names of 244 members who died during the war. This illumination by Claire Evans illustrates the various aspects of work carried out by the Service during the conflict.
Finally, the Metropolitan Police Roll of Honour was dedicated by King George VI at a special service on 27th July 1950. It contains the names of 1,076 officers who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars, either whilst serving in the Forces or as a result of enemy action at home. The dedication on the title page reads:
To the Glory of God and in proud Remembrance of Members of the Metropolitan Police, Metropolitan Special Constabulary and Metropolitan Police War Reserve who lost their lives on active service or by enemy action this Book is humbly dedicated.
Tributes to those who sacrificed so much during the war can be found elsewhere at the Abbey, too. In the Chapter House, windows damaged during the war were re-glazed by stained glass artist Joan Howson in 1951. Included in the south west window are small quarries depicting wartime scenes and activities such as falling bombs, aerial combat, firefighters, WVS workers, the Home Guard, air raid wardens, telephone operators and surgeons at work.
Although churches in the UK are currently closed and the Abbey can no longer hold a service as planned on the 75th anniversary of VE Day, we share the following resources to help you mark the day:
BBC One will show coverage of the official commemorative events live from 2.45pm on 8th May.
Her Majesty The Queen will address the nation on BBC One at 9.00pm, the exact moment her father, King George VI, gave a radio address in 1945.
A special edition of our podcast, Abbeycast, will be released at 9.00am on 8th May
The government's VEDay75 website has creative ways to mark the anniversary.
In memory of the Glorious Dead
In memory of the Glorious Dead
The biggest challenge we face is maintaining such a large physical collection of material within a historic building – believe it or not, there's just not enough space for it all.

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Dick Gephardt on War & PeaceDemocratic Representative (MO-3); Former Democratic Candidate for President |
GEPHARDT: I will always do what I think is right to keep the people of this country safe. And I became convinced that taking that action was the best thing to keep the people of this country safe. I didn't [just] listen to George Bush. I went to the CIA. I said [to the CIA director], "I want to know if we're worried about weapons, or the components of weapons, or the ability to quickly make components that can wind up in the hands of terrorists." He said emphatically yes. And it was on the basis of that and talking to other people that had been in the Clinton administration in the security apparatus that this was a great worry.
Now, the president has not followed the right advice. He has not gotten the help of NATO or the UN. It's inexplicable to me that he has not done the things that I told him and many people told him from the beginning he should have done.
A: I think a two state solution is viable and I believe President Bush has made a mistake by not engaging in the Middle East peace process from the beginning of his presidency.
A: I supported the resolution because I gained information from the CIA and other former Clinton security officials that Iraq either had weapons or components of weapons of mass destruction. I have been severely critical of President Bush's inability or unwillingness to get more international UN help in Iraq. Getting that help is the only way we can succeed.
GEPHARDT: In the end you're presented in Congress with a vote, up or down on the $87 billion. And I can't find it within myself to not vote for the money to support our men and women who are over there protecting us. I agree with the view that this president has failed. He hasn't gotten us the international help we need. He hasn't gotten the troops and money that should have been there from the beginning. We've got differences in opinion about this war. But I think it's an abomination for this president to call people who disagree with him as lacking patriotism. I think the highest act of patriotism is saying what we believe.
GEPHARDT: I don't think you can negotiate with terrorists. If we're going to defeat terrorism, we've got to fight against poverty, we've got to fight against bad governance, and we've got to say to people that are supporting terrorists, "This behavior cannot stand."
GEPHARDT: We've got to get answers to very important questions. What's the money go for? Are we going to just pay for the rehabilitation of Iraq? And who's going to help? Bush still doesn't have the help. Bush is not leading on this issue. He needs to come to the Congress with answers to a lot of our questions before Congress can make that decision.
GEPHARDT: We need the help of the international coalition. It is incomprehensible to me that five months after the conflict ended, we still have not gotten any money from any other country. Bush's foreign policy is a miserable failure. We've got people over there being injured and killed. It's costing a billion dollars a week. He needs to get the help from the international coalition that he should have gotten months ago.
GEPHARDT: I am going to vote to support the troops. But for the rebuilding of Iraq, I want to see international help.
Q: So if the president says, "I need $87 billion to protect the troops," you're ready to say yes to that?
GEPHARDT: We've got to break it down. We've got to get the rebuilding help that we need and we've got to get appropriations for homeland security.
GEPHARDT: We cannot cut and run. We've got to see that this situation is left in a better place. We have to form an international coalition to get it done. This president is a miserable failure. This president doesn't get it. He's a unilateralist. He thinks he knows all the answers. He doesn't respect others. You got to respect other leaders. They didn't agree with us. You got to work with them, put together the coalitions that we need. That's what I would do.
Q: But you said we can't pull out now. So do we send more troops, or do we keep the ones that we have there?
GEPHARDT: No, we get help, we get the help that we should have gotten from the beginning. We go to the Turks, to the Chinese, the Russians, the French, the Germans and we work out a resolution consistent with all the traditions of the American military. We're not going to turn our troops over to UN command. We've done this in Bosnia and Afghanistan, we can do this.
A: I helped write the resolution language that said that Bush should go to the UN. Unfortunately, Bush's diplomatic efforts have been a dismal failure, and we did not get the UN to join us in the most important foreign policy effort our country has made in this new century. The US needs allies to rebuild Iraq - sadly, we have lost support from our friends. This is a failure of foreign policy and a failure of diplomacy that I intend to reverse.
A: I believe that Congress can and should serve a valuable role by leading an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the war. It is the role of Congress to ask questions and find the truth. Only when we have all the facts can we then decide how best to proceed.
To our enemies, we say with one voice, no act of violence, no threat will drive us apart or steer us from our course, to protect America and preserve our democracy. And make no mistake about it. We�re going to hunt you down and make you pay.
As Americans, we need to put partisanship aside and work together to solve the problems that face us. On the day after the attacks, I went to the Oval Office for a meeting with the president. I said, �Mr. President, we have to find a way to work together.� I said, �We have to trust you, and you have to trust us.� Since that day, there�s been no daylight between us in this war on terrorism. We�ve met almost every single week and built a bipartisan consensus that is helping America win this war.
In a close vote, the motion to invade passed. And immediately thereafter, we passed a unanimous resolution declaring that the Congress fully supported our troops in their mission to expel the Iraqis from Kuwait. I hate to think of the second guessing that would have resulted had the president launched an invasion without the consent of the Congress-particularly if the war had proven to be lengthy or unsuccessful.
Title: Condemning bigotry and violence against Sikh Americans in the wake of terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.
Summary: Declares that, in the quest to identify, locate, and bring to justice the perpetrators and sponsors of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the civil rights and liberties of all Americans, including Sikh-Americans, should be protected.


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For Release: Thursday, November 8, 2007
Contacts: Heather Feeney, BLM (202) 452-5031; Julie Ruggiero, DOE (202) 586-4940; Joe Walsh, USFS (202) 205-1294
Agencies Publish Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Energy Transport Corridor Designations in 11 Western States
The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the U.S. Departments of Energy, Agriculture, Commerce and Defense today released for public review and comment a draft programmatic environmental impact statement (draft PEIS) proposing designation of energy transport corridors on federal lands in 11 western states in accordance with Section 368 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The proposed energy corridors would facilitate future siting of oil, gas, and hydrogen pipelines and electricity transmission and distribution on federal lands in the West to help address growing energy demand while protecting the environment.
"The agencies involved in designating these corridors worked for nearly two years to develop the locations presented in the draft EIS," said Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Stephen Allred. "From the beginning, we were committed to avoiding the many unique areas and sensitive resources found on western public lands, wherever possible. Designating these corridors will minimize the dispersal of rights-of-way for energy transport projects across western landscapes."
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 directs the secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, and the Interior to designate energy transport corridors for oil, gas, and hydrogen pipelines and electricity transmission and distribution facilities on federal lands in portions of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The Act further directs that environmental reviews be completed for the designation of such corridors, and that the designated corridors are incorporated into the relevant agency land use and resource management plans or equivalent plans.
"Meeting the nation's future energy needs will necessarily require some expansion of our capabilities for transporting energy resources," said U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Kevin M. Kolevar. "The infrastructure projects that could be constructed within these corridors may help assure the reliable delivery of electricity and fuels throughout the western United States."
Eighty-four percent of the corridors proposed and analyzed in the draft PEIS are located on BLM-managed lands, while 14 percent are on USDA Forest Service lands. The remaining fractional percentages are on lands managed by the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation and National Park Service, or by the Department of Defense. The proposed corridors are agency-preferred locations for siting of future pipelines and transmission lines.
Interested members of the public, government agencies, American Indian tribes, states, and non-governmental organizations are invited to submit comments on the draft PEIS.
The draft PEIS evaluated factors that constrain where a network of energy transport corridors could be located – including topographical, environmental and regulatory constraints – as well as the overall suitability of particular lands to support development and operation of energy transport infrastructure. As a result of an inclusive public scoping effort over the past two years, including regional meetings and public review of preliminary corridor location maps, the draft PEIS proposal avoids major known and designated sensitive resource areas including wilderness areas and national parks, tribal lands, national monuments and national recreation areas, wherever possible. The few locations where the proposed corridors could not avoid sensitive areas are located along existing transmission lines, highways, pipelines or other rights-of-way.
The agencies will solicit comments during a 90-day public comment period on the draft PEIS. Public meetings will be held in each of the 11 states and in Washington, D.C. During this period, briefings and consultation will continue to occur with each governor's office, tribes, Congress, and historic preservation officials.
Public meetings to take oral comments on the draft PEIS will be held:
January 8, 2008 – Portland, Ore., and Sacramento, Calif.
January 10 – Seattle, Wash. and Ontario, Calif.
January 15 – Phoenix, Ariz. and Grand Junction, Colo.
January 17 – Las Vegas, Nev. and Salt Lake City, Ut.
January 23 – Window Rock, Ariz.
January 24 – Albuquerque, N.M.
January 29 – Helena, Mont., and Cheyenne, Wyo.
January 31 – Boise, Id. and Denver, Colo.
February 5 – Washington, D.C. vicinity
To submit comments and to review the draft PEIS and related documents, including detailed maps, visit the project website at http://corridoreis.anl.gov. Review copies are also available at libraries and agency regional and field offices. The draft PEIS will also be published in the Federal Register on Friday, November 16, 2007, which initiates the 90-day public comment period.


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Summary: The law firm of Lowenstein Sandler has added former Newark, New Jersey mayoral candidate Shavar D. Jeffries to its litigation department.
Lowenstein Sandler has announced in a press release that Shavar D. Jeffries has joined the firm as a partner. He is a former mayoral candidate in Newark, New Jersey and is a law professor at Seton Hall.
Jeffries will represent clients in criminal and civil litigation cases.
Jeffries worked as an Assistant Attorney General and Counsel to New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram from 2008 to 2010.
Gary M. Wingens, the chair and managing partner of the firm, said the following in the release:
"We are thrilled that Shavar Jeffries has chosen to join our firm. Shavar has earned an impeccable reputation for persistence in the face of the toughest obstacles, and for his ability to identify solutions to contentious problems — exactly what our clients require from their counselors. We know him to be an inspiring individual and remarkable attorney. He joins an exceptional litigation department and we look forward to his many valuable contributions as a partner with the firm."
Jeffries added the following:
"Lowenstein has some of the best lawyers anywhere and tremendous strength in its litigation practice and other core areas. "The firm is also well known for its long-standing and prodigious commitment to the public interest, including its long-time advocacy on behalf of children and educational issues. I am excited to work with a team of such smart, experienced, and committed people who put their clients and community first in all they do."
Jeffries earned his BA from Duke University and his law degree from Columbia University.
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The view through a prism can distort shapes and fragment color — perhaps heightening the beholder's interest, but offering anything but an authentic glimpse of reality. The National Security Agency's ironic choice of "PRISM" as the code name for a massive data-collection program, recently exposed in documents leaked by federal contractor Edward Snowden, only begins to suggest the problems with this clandestine intrusion into the lives of citizens.
Government snooping is nothing new. But PRISM, which gathers information from Facebook, Google, and other tech giants, appears unusually far-reaching; the security agency was gathering detailed phone-call data from Verizon as well. These initiatives have moved the potential scale of government surveillance into a whole new realm whose limits are unknown — not only to citizens, but to officials responsible for the management of intelligence collection.
Two new factors have changed the game entirely. The first is the transformation of the government's security apparatus from a relatively small enterprise, in which figures like J. Edgar Hoover could exercise dominating influence, into a security bureaucracy vast enough to elude description, much less regulation.
As Dana Priest and William M. Arkin pointed out in their 2010 Washington Post series "Top Secret America," more than 1,000 government organizations are paired with more than 1,000 private companies in the security labyrinth, all moving about blindly and haphazardly. Almost a million people hold top-secret security clearances, including janitors who manage the waste. Many others hold lesser security classifications. The Post subtitled its series "A hidden world, growing beyond control." PRISM shows where that loss of control leads, but so does the fact that a low-level analyst like Snowden could lay bare one of the NSA's deepest secrets.
Such massive bureaucracy, staffed by unnamed millions but commanded by no one, generates an impersonal dynamic of its own. No individual or group of individuals, no matter how well-intentioned, is capable of supervising it. Moral responsibility is diffuse. Such a massive institution gathers its own momentum, and neither laws nor the Constitution nor oath-bound authorities may be able to channel it or stop it.
To the fiercest of national-security hawks, this expansion of a one-track-minded bureaucracy is not intrinsically a problem. But it is, because of a second factor: unfettered technology that also resists all efforts at supervision.
The National Security Agency's intrusions are possible because Verizon and other telecoms already possess a near universal wealth of personal data on every user, and because computers can sort through such information with astounding efficiency. Quite aside from any government policy, citizens who prefer new-world communication to a Luddite solitude are forfeiting traditional protections of privacy.
But this transformation, beyond shaking loose vast quantities of personal data, has also spread the idea that all information can and should be made transparent. That's wrong.
The greatest secret being revealed through all of this is that secrets themselves are becoming a thing of the past. How can Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, each from his unimportant place deep in the bureaucracy, yet each wielding the radically unchecked power of the computer, so readily penetrate the most secure of government barriers? Their access shows what an illusion those barriers have become. The crisis here is that responsible governance, including that of a liberal democracy, requires the reasonable management of secrecy. What happens when both responsibility and management become impossible?
Turning the prism toward the individual, the crisis can seem even graver. A culture of unlimited personal exposure — whether driven by commerce, government, or the pure exhibitionism evident on social-networking sites — will destroy what makes for human identity. Personhood requires privacy, but privacy is elusive, which is why we depend on one another to safeguard it.
The most basic function of government is to protect each citizen's inner life, the sacred realm of moral discovery and self-knowledge. Indeed, the freedom that America promises to citizens is the freedom of thought and choice — of nothing less than conscience. The stakes here could not be higher.
But a government unable to protect its own secrets cannot defend the privacy of its citizens. Two sides of the same threat.
James Carroll writes regularly for the Globe.


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May a mayor who owns the only automobile dealership in the city sell police squad cars to the city?
Generally speaking, the answer is no with
a limited exception. The governing body member risks committing a
felony if he or she sells cars to the municipality. Indeed, the officer
would be in danger of committing a felony simply by submitting price
quotes or a bid to the municipality. Wis. Stat. sec. 946.13 generally
prohibits municipal officials from having a private financial interest
in a public contract. As a result, local officials are generally
prohibited from entering into a contract for goods, services,
construction or employment with the municipality.
Specifically, sec. 946.13(1)(b) provides
that a public official may not participate in the making of a contract
in his or her official capacity if the official has a direct or indirect
financial interest in the contract. Since this is a prohibition on
official action, abstaining from voting on the contract will prevent
However, sec. 946.13(1)(a) provides that a
public official may not in his or her private capacity negotiate or bid
for or enter into a contract in which the public official has a direct
or indirect financial interest if the official is authorized or required by law to
participate in his capacity as such officer or employee in the making
of that contract. This latter provision is a prohibition on private
action. A public official cannot avoid violating it merely by abstaining
from voting. All that is necessary for a violation to occur is that the
official be authorized to vote on or exercise discretion with regard to
a contract in which the official has a private financial interest and
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Joe Biden on Free TradeVice President; previously Democratic Senator (DE) |
In December 2011, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found, in GPX v. United States, that U.S. law prohibits the Department of Commerce from applying CVDs to non-market economies, including China. This legislation overturns that decision.
Even as our nations cooperate, though, we will continue to compete. As Americans, we welcome this competition. It's part of our DNA. And it pushes our companies to develop better products and services and our government to craft better policies.
But competition can only be mutually beneficial if the rules of the game are understood, agreed upon and followed. I'm pleased that we have made progress in areas of concern. China's exchange rate is appreciating, though still substantially undervalued in our view. And China has responded to our concerns to strengthen enforcement of intellectual property rights as well.
A: I know exactly what I'd do in those foreign policy issues. But quite frankly, I think that the toughest choice for me, the thing I'm most unsure about, is how you rationalize competition and trade policy. I think that's the single most difficult challenge that I will have as president.
A: A president's job is to create jobs, not to export jobs, and the idea that we are not willing to take the prime minister of Canada and the president of Mexico to the mat to make this agreement work is just a lack of presidential leadership. I would lead, I would do that, I would change it.
A: Obviously, no trade agreements that do not include workers' rights and environmental rights. But getting right to it, it seems to me that we have an incredible opportunity here to reassert America's dominance in the world economic system, and that is by significantly investing in a health care policy that takes the burden off of employers.
A: I'm not. No, I'm not willing to go there. You don't need to start a tariff war. All you have to do is enforce the law. Enforce the law.
The mission of the Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies is to increase public understanding of the benefits of free trade and the costs of protectionism.
The Cato Trade Center focuses not only on U.S. protectionism, but also on trade barriers around the world. Cato scholars examine how the negotiation of multilateral, regional, and bilateral trade agreements can reduce trade barriers and provide institutional support for open markets. Not all trade agreements, however, lead to genuine liberalization. In this regard, Trade Center studies scrutinize whether purportedly market-opening accords actually seek to dictate marketplace results, or increase bureaucratic interference in the economy as a condition of market access.
Studies by Cato Trade Center scholars show that the United States is most effective in encouraging open markets abroad when it leads by example. The relative openness and consequent strength of the U.S. economy already lend powerful support to the worldwide trend toward embracing open markets. Consistent adherence by the United States to free trade principles would give this trend even greater momentum. Thus, Cato scholars have found that unilateral liberalization supports rather than undermines productive trade negotiations.
Scholars at the Cato Trade Center aim at nothing less than changing the terms of the trade policy debate: away from the current mercantilist preoccupation with trade balances, and toward a recognition that open markets are their own reward.
The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
A joint resolution approving the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003. The original act sanctioned the ruling military junta, and recognized the National League of Democracy as the legitimate representative of the Burmese people.
Legislative Outcome: Related bills: H.J.RES.44, H.J.RES.93, S.J.RES.41; became Public Law 110-52.


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They're delightful! They're beautiful! They're going to read lame gags from a teleprompter! Behold the two movie stars who have been tapped to serve as the next Oscar hosts.
James Franco and Anne Hathaway will serve as the co-hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards, it was announced Monday afternoon. "James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons — fresh, exciting and multi-talented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on February 27," said telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer. The bash is set to take place on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center.
(Oscars and Beyond: Check out the 100 best movies of all time.)
For arguably the most high-profile awards show in the world, the Oscars has, at best, a patchy record in recent years when it comes to the host. Long gone are the days of safe choices such as Billy Crystal or Whoopi Goldberg (or indeed, Bob Hope before them) with Oscar trying out chat show hosts like David Letterman (pretty much considered a disaster), Jon Stewart (he's now sticking to the day job) or comedians Chris Rock and Ellen DeGeneres and the ratings unfortunately matched their efforts.
That said, the past couple of shows have shown that there's life in the old Oscar yet. Hugh Jackman brought a sense of vaudeville to proceedings in 2009 — and 37 million viewers — and this year's pairing of Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin must have shown the producers that double acts are the way to go as the program drew an average audience of 41.3 million viewers, its best performance in five years. Baldwin/Martin also scored favorably with the all important 18- to 49-year-old demographic (a 13.1 rating) and when you consider that Franco/Hathaway's combined age (61) is younger than Martin himself, ABC will be hoping for more of the same, if not higher figures in a few months time.
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As for the hosts, one fascinating subplot is that both of them could be nominated on the night.
Franco is considered a sure thing to get a Best Actor nod for his portrayal of Aron Ralston in Danny Boyle's 127 Hours and Hathaway may get a second nomination (her first was for Rachel Getting Married in 2008) for Love and Other Drugs. NewsFeed is pretty much certain that no Oscar host has ever won the gold statue in the same year as taking charge of the broadcast. But it's always worth remembering that no matter how compelling the possibility of awarding yourself an Oscar may be (or at least linking to somebody announcing that you're the winner), it's the quality of the movies and performances that will draw us in on the night, especially if bragging rights are at stake when it comes to the office Oscar pool.


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Justin Upton Trade Rumors: Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles Look To Strike Deal For Arizona Diamondbacks Outfielder
Another week has gone by and the Arizona Diamondbacks still have outfielder Justin Upton on the hot stove. What may be holding up any deal is Arizona's asking price.
The 25-year-old has again been linked to a trade with numerous teams. The Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Baltimore Orioles, and Atlanta Braves are all vying for his services, according a report from Fox Sports.
Upton, a top five-tool player, is scheduled to make $38.5 million over the next three years, making him one of the best bargains in the majors. That fact alone has made him desirable to plenty of teams.
San Diego was the rumored spot for Upton last summer, but a deal has yet to be consummated, while Texas and Seattle are still in the hunt for offense.
The report states the Rangers are willing to talk, but have taken shortstop Elvis Andrus and infielder Jurickson Profar off the table. Texas has a package of third baseman Mike Olt and a top pitching prospect waiting for Arizona.
Seattle unfortunately is not one of Upton's desired destinations, and he holds much of the power with his no-trade clause. Baltimore was also a rumored destination, but Arizona was asking for many too many young pitching prospects.
The Braves were originally interested to pair Upton with his brother B.J., and power hitter Jason Heyward, giving them one of the best young outfields in the league, but they refused to part with shortstop Andrelton Simmons, according to AOL Sporting News.
These rumors have gone on for so long that the Diamondbacks may have put themselves in a position to just take the best available offer. Upton is assuredly very talented, but has underperformed in two of his last three seasons.
Upton hasn't hit .300 since 2009, and his OPS dropped by 11 points last season, along with his slugging and RBI numbers making a dramatic slide. If this trend continues, his value on the trade market will drop.
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Indiana Governor Portrait Artist: Jacob Cox (1810 - 1892) - Wright
Jacob Cox
Artist, Indiana Governors' Portrait Collection
Joseph Albert Wright (1810-1867)
Governor of Indiana
December 5, 1849-January 12, 1857
Artist: Jacob Cox, American, 1810-1892
oil on canvas, 36 3/16 x 29 1/8 (92.0 x 74.0)
JOSEPH WRIGHT's portrait in the collection is another by Jacob Cox. It was acquired for the state in Governor Baker's time, but since there are no records of the date or of the circumstances of its execution, or of its history prior to its placement in the State House, we can only speculate about its origin.
Since Wright did not return to Indiana after 1857 when he left to serve as minister to Prussia, it is likely that Cox painted the portrait before Wright left Indianapolis. The painting probably dates from late in Wright's second term of office since he appears in the portrait to be a man approaching fifty. The execution is such as to lead one to believe that the portrait was made from life: his set jaw and compressed lips imply an unyielding disposition; and the gesture of his hand toward a statute book clearly suggest his regard for the authority of the law.
The composition and coloring have been successfully arranged. The tones are deep and rich. A rosy glow pervades the background, creating a warm atmosphere and a convincing effect of depth. The well-modeled head is strongly illuminated, giving the face a ruddy hue and making it stand out clearly from the background.
It is interesting to note that Cox had painted five Indiana governors before the formation of the collection in 1869. In fact, the four previously mentioned portraits may have been displayed in the committee room of the State House at an exhibition of Cox's work, late in 1841. (1) One cannot help but wonder if the existence of this nucleus was not a large factor in encouraging Conrad Baker to initiate the project.
Jacob Cox was born near Philadelphia in 1810, and his youth was spent in Philadelphia and in Washington, Pennsylvania. When he was about twenty years old, he went by boat, with his bride and his brother, from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati.
In 1833, they came to Indianapolis, where the brothers established a stove, tinware, and coppersmith business. Jacob had displayed some talent for art in his boyhood days, but he was persuaded to take up a more practical trade and was discouraged from taking instruction in drawing and painting. The tinware establishment was very successful here, but Jacob found his eagerness to paint overshadowing his interest in business, and spare moments given to sketching and reading art books multiplied until painting became the dominant interest of his life.
He opened a studio in Indianapolis in 1835 and began his long career as an Indiana painter, which was interrupted by a short stay in Cincinnati in 1842. His reputation grew rapidly, and within a few years he became the leading artist of Indianapolis, receiving many important commissions and attracting to his studio most of the art students of the period. He retained his popularity until his death in 1892.
For more detailed information on Jacob Cox, see Wilbur D. Peat, Paintings by Jacob Cox - A Retrospective Exhibition of Work by and Early Indianapolis Artist, (ex. cat.) Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, November 8-30, 1941.
(1) Peat, Paintings by Jacob Cox, unpaginated.
Source: Peat, Wilbur D. Portraits and Painters of the Governors of Indiana 1800-1978. Revised, edited and with new entries by Diane Gail Lazarus, Indianapolis Museum of Art. Biographies of the governors by Lana Ruegamer, Indiana Historical Society. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society and Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1978.


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Thursday, August 11, 2011
More thoughts on the FOMC's new policy
The Fed's decision earlier this week to announce that its target interest rate would remain "exceptionally low" for at least two years was not only unprecedented in the annals of central banking, but would have been previously inconceivable. So the impact and import of the announcement has taken a few days to sink in. Today's disastrous 30-yr T-bond auction provided the first evidence that the world does not like what it sees. 30-yr yields jumped almost 20 bps on the auction results, and the 10-30 spread has reached its widest for the year, now only 15 bps shy of the all-time high reached last November on the eve of the launch of QE2.
The Fed's extreme and unprecedented efforts to provide monetary stimulus to the economy are undoubtedly contributing to the market's deep sense of unease, with Europe being the biggest source of concern for the moment (more on that in a subsequent post). What is disconcerting is that this new twist to Fed policy is also contributing to rising inflation expectations, even as the economy struggles. Is aggressive monetary stimulus really necessary? Worth the risk of igniting higher inflation? Will it work, or will it just create more bubbles and distortions?
QE2 didn't have any immediate effect on the economy or on the money supply, because banks decided to hold on to the extra reserves the Fed dumped into the banking system, but it probably helped weaken the dollar. But now, the promise of two years or more of super-low funding costs will almost certainly galvanize the banking industry and the institutional investment community. Banks stand to make handsome profits with an outsized and semi-permanent gap between their funding costs and their loan portfolio, and they can even make hay by buying Treasury notes and bonds, since the Fed is basically guaranteeing that the yield curve will be positively sloped for at least two years. Institutional investors can borrow at rates only slightly higher than the funds rate, and use the proceeds to leverage themselves into a variety of attractive situations—anything that promises to yield more than 1% or so.
The Fed is encouraging everyone to take on more risk by borrowing, leveraging up, moving out the yield curve, or shifting money from relatively riskless CDs to riskier bonds, stocks or commodities, and I have to believe that they will be successful. Not many will want to look this gift horse in the mouth. Sooner or later we should see faster growth in the money supply, a weaker dollar, stronger commodity prices, higher real estate prices, higher stock prices, and—of course—higher inflation. Whether we will see a stronger economy is the real question.
In a sense, the Fed is gambling that the promise of cheap money will trump the concerns that have kept markets and businesses depressed: fears of rising tax and regulatory burdens, of another real estate collapse, of a sovereign default or two, and of a Eurozone banking collapse. By weakening the demand for money, this gambit should at the very least result in faster nominal GDP growth by increasing the velocity of the existing money supply; it's the composition of that faster growth (i.e., how much is real and how much is inflation) that is the unknown at this point. There will be less hoarding of money, more risk-taking, and more lending and borrowing. But will the money be directed to productive, job-producing activities, or just to consumption and speculative activities?
I'm willing to bet that we will see at least some pickup in growth, if for no other reason than I think that at least some of the increased risk-taking the follows from this new policy will prove productive.
10 comments:
- McKibbinUSA said...
Scott, I too am still digesting this latest move by the Fed -- my initial take is that by holding rates at zero through 2013, the economy will benefit -- however, the Fed seems to be sacrificing themselves institutionally to accomplish this -- what does the Fed know that I do not (?) -- I tend to believe that we are in for the arrival of new currency regimes in the form of commodities-based paper -- we'll see -- again, I am still pondering all of this -- I enjoy your blog by the way...
- August 11, 2011 at 2:44 PM
- Public Library said...
The assumption is people will stop 'hoarding' like it was circa 2004-2007. Problem is, the situation is completely different.
Personal balance sheets are stretched, job optimism tepid at best, and having just been burned makes it highly unlikely people will follow suit.
Additionally, people will need to save more to offset the financial repression. The Fed is pushing the US off the cliff IMHO.
You need to ride the wave and get out before the bottom really falls out during the next crisis. 2008 was a signal, not the real thing... - August 11, 2011 at 3:00 PM
- John O said...
Yes the spread is favorable to banks and reits right now but isn't the underlying problem that no one has more than 10% to put down, and banks and lenders are not going to lend 90% to a semi or un-qualified borrower? How does this unwind.
Here's another idea. Cheaper for the govt to bulldoze 3 million unoccupied homes and take them out of inventory, that might stimulate the market a bit. - August 11, 2011 at 3:18 PM
- Benjamin Cole said...
Actually, Bernanke-san is doing nothing. Rates would be low in any event. Inflation is dead, and there is nowhere to invest money. Capital gluts-ville.
Usually, low interest rates discourage capital formation, but not now. We hit zero and people keep saving, globally.
Instead of feeble dithering, the Fed should move to steady QE3 and targeted nominal GDP.
And investors may or may not expect inflation. Yields are so low it is hard to know what anyone thinks. Inflation is so low, that measuring it with the CPI is like trying use a inch ruler to measure millimeters.
Some very conservative economists would argue we are in deflation now as the CPI overstates inflation (well, they used to argue that, but then Obama become president).
The right-wing has developed an unproductive obsession with minute rates of inflation, and a perverted fetish or even worship off gold and other symbols of wealth, such as the perceived value of currency. Some right-wingers speak of "debased" currencies and cultures. Next we will be setting up gay brothels in the White House.
Real wealth comes from innovation, business investment, management and labor. Support those activities and forget about choking the economy through tight money.
Is the Fed tight now? Oddly enough, yes. They hit zero-bound, when they would like to go to, say, minue 3 percent interest rates. But they can't. That place does not exist.
That is why we need QE3.
It is a strange period in financial history. The hoary bromides of the left-wing (more fiscal stimulus) and the right-wing (gold or tight money) do not work.
What works is using Milton Friedman's policies for Japan.
We are getting Japanned more and more every day. Consider out S&P 500, below 1999 levels. Consider our falling property markets. Consider our less than one percent CPI inflation rate for the last three years.
Bernanke-san, please come home from Japan. - August 11, 2011 at 3:22 PM
- Fullcarry said...
The FOMC statement actually said the following:
"The Committee currently anticipates that economic conditions--including low rates of resource utilization and a subdued outlook for inflation over the medium run--are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate at least through mid-2013."
That is a forecast, not a commitment. That distinction is quite important, no? - August 11, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- Scott Grannis said...
Fullcarry: yes, the Fed did make its "promise" conditional, but its prior commitment to an "extended period" was also conditional and commonly understood to be one year. Adding "at least through mid-2013" is quite specific and at the very least must imply a longer period of lower rates than their former promise. Bottom line, they are trying very hard to encourage people to borrow and spend money.
- August 11, 2011 at 5:18 PM
- The Roller said...
Good point, Fullcarry.
The board of governors at the Fed could double the FFR from .25% to .50, and still hold to their statement of "exceptionally low levels, at least through mid-2013".
Look for massive amounts of continuing takeovers in an environment such as this. - August 11, 2011 at 6:51 PM
- ronrasch said...
With a weak dollar American is for sale at a discount. Also, with Obamacare, excessive regulation, high energy prices, and high corporate taxes, business will likely not want to risk capital. Also, there is inflation in energy and food prices that hit the poor throughout the world the hardest. Great post by the way Scott.
- August 12, 2011 at 3:10 AM
- brodero said...
3 years after the May 1980 consumer sentiment low..the S&P 500
was up 45% - August 12, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- brodero said...
Look out AGG the bond etf has
yield to maturity of 1.69%...with
a duration of 4.20 - August 12, 2011 at 7:41 AM


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"The passage of a policy endorsing Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) at the Green Party of Canada convention in Ottawa this past weekend represents a significant step away from the values that define the B.C. Green Party," Weaver said.
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TREBLE: Presence on/off
CHANNEL VOLUME: Volume Boost on/off
REVERB: Noise Gate on/off
EFFECT TWEAK: Tap Tempo time
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Five Tips for Weeding Your Garden
With the help of Columbus, Ohio area landscaping experts Jim and Mary from Old World Garden Farms, we are bring you five tips for eliminating weeds in your garden. With consistent maintenance (only 10 minutes per day!) and some smarts, your garden can be weed free. You can enjoy higher produce yields and less back-stressing labor by following these tips for removing and preventing weeds in your garden.
1. Mulch, mulch, mulch: According to Jim and Mary from Old World Garden Farms, bare soil is an invitation for weeds to seed and take root. By covering the soil with mulch, you can prevent future weeds from growing. Jim and Mary use straw and shredded leaf mulch in their walking rows, and compost around the plants. Organic materials like straw and leaves are the best mulch for your vegetable garden. They decompose to enrich the soil with nitrogen. Be sure that you are getting straw and not hay. Hay contains grass seeds that can blow around and sprout all over your yard. Straw is just the hollow stems of wheat plants.
2. Aerate your soil by hoeing: Jim and Mary recommend that you hoe around the base of your plants once a week, to a depth of only three to five inches. If you loosen any weeds when hoeing, collect them in a bucket and let the sun cook them to death (if you have chickens, you can feed the weeds to the chickens, who love to eat them). Avoid over-hoeing your soil, as it can plant above-ground weeds into your soil. Tilling plants even more weeds than hoeing, so mulch and plant cover crops instead of tilling.
3. Spend 10 minutes a day weeding: Most home improvement experts will tell you that slow and steady wins the race. You won't need to spend hours weeding on the weekends if you go out into the garden and weed for 10 minutes every day. Weeding every day prevents the roots of weeds from having time to grow big. When you are out in your garden, you can also weed as you go. It's a good way to make the most of limited gardening time.
4. Keep walking-rows weed free: The weeds in those walking rows will transplant themselves into your garden beds, so it's extra important to keep walking rows free of weeds. You can cover walking rows with black plastic, with stones or gravel, or with straw. Just make sure that your ten minutes of weeding time per day includes walking rows.
5. Plant cover crops: Jim and Mary say that planting cover crops in the fall prevents spring and summer weeds. Why? As I said, bare soil is an invitation for weeds to take root. Cover crops sharply reduce the amount of bare soil in your garden. They also form a buffer between the garden bed and any weed seeds that might fall on it. Cover crops do double duty as fertilizers for the garden, and also can act as an ecologically-friendly alternative to grass lawns.
What are your weeding secrets? Please share with the community in the comments.
Chaya Kurtz writes for Networx.com.
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Happy Monday Friends! We hope everyone had a great weekend 🙂
Motherhood has its seriousness and frustration as well as its laughs. That's why we are here. Life is much easier when traveled with companions! So mamas, let's join together in the spirit of motherhood and share our moments together. We want to hear the happy, sad, tough, terrible, hilarious moments that make being a mother the best job in the world!
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And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.


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Prospect Lefferts Gardens sure has come a long way! When we moved to the neighborhood last February, a few brands of kettle-cooked chips at the Yemeni guys' bodega on Flatbush were the closest thing there was to gentrified retail.
But just a few weeks ago the folks at the Wholesome Gourmet Market unsheathed their new storefront, which had been covered up for months as it was being transformed from a ratty bodega into a glass-walled, grade-A bougie market. The shining beacon of gentrification anchors the short stretch of Lincoln Road between Prospect Park and Flatbush Avenue that we call Hipster Row, which along with the B/Q station is home to Lincoln Park Tavern, a new coffee shop (is that Cor-Ten steel we see on its sign??) and the Maple Street School, a $1,689-a-month "parent cooperative preschool."
And while we appreciate the efforts of the folks at Wholesome Market to meet the market's need for Japanese ice cream balls, we have to wonder: is there really demand in Flatbush, land of the dollar van and elderly West Indian women selling spices out of shopping carts on Church Avenue, for a $9.99-a-bottle juice cleanse?
Luckily, it's not all 24-hour gluten-free chips and brie (which this reporter may or may not have availed himself of last night at 2 a.m.)—future residents of the neighborhood's "game-changing" 23-story building will find that a bit of the old Flatbush still shines through: Prospect Lefferts Gardens' hair industry is still alive and kicking. Just a few months ago a new hair supply emporium opened up just around the corner on Flatbush Avenue, renting a massive storefront and installing a glassy new façade.
At least for the moment, the hair salons of Flatbush—lit, braiding well past midnight on weekends and more than a few of them kitted out with shiny new hardwood floors—can coexist with kale chips.


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Awards were announced in July and August 2009 for the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program's most recent solicitation, Changing Seasonality in the Arctic System (CSAS). NSF received 71 individual proposals in response to the solicitation, representing approximately $30 million in requested funding—40 awards totaling $14.3 million were made. More than 85% of the funding for the 17 projects was provided through funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Information on these projects is listed below.
Awards were also recently announced for ARCSS research funded through the Arctic Research Opportunities solicitation. A total of 19 awards were made totaling $5.6 million—all of the funds for these awards were provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Information on these projects appears in the next article, "2009 ARCSS Projects Funded through Arctic Research Opportunities Solicitation," and more information about the Arctic Research Opportunities solicitation is available at:
Other recent ARCSS activities include discussions with the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Science Steering Committee about improved integration between ARCSS and SEARCH activities.
For more information, go to:
or contact Neil Swanberg (nswanber [at] nsf.gov), Josh Schimel (schimel [at] lifesci.ucsb.edu), or Helen Wiggins (helen [at] arcus.org).
2009 Changing Seasonality in the Arctic System (CSAS) Awards
A Change of Seasonality of the Upper Arctic Ocean in Response to Atmospheric and Sea Ice Forcing.
Jiayan Yang (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [WHOI]). #0902090, $497,366.
Changing Seasonality of the Arctic: Alteration of Production Cycles and Trophic Linkages in Response to Changes in Sea Ice and Upper Ocean Physics.
Jinlun Zhang, Michael Steele (University of Washington [UW]). #0901987, $391,639.
Yvette Spitz (Oregon State University). #0901924, $248,347.
Carin Ashjian (WHOI). #0901131, $152,342.
Robert Campbell (University of Rhode Island). #0901926, $108,539.
Diamonds and Oil from the Tundra: A System Study on the Impact of Changing Seasons on Mining and Oil Exploration.
Matthew Sturm, Thomas Douglas (U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory [CRREL]). #0902130, $250,164.
Michael Goldstein (Babson College). #0902066, $173,191.
Effects of Lengthening Growing Season and Increasing Temperature on Soil Carbon Fluxes and Stocks in Arctic Tundra.
Jianwu Tang (Marine Biological Laboratory [MBL]). #0902109, $99,879.
How Does Changing Seasonality Affect the Capacity of Arctic Stream Networks to Influence Nutrient Fluxes from the Landscape to the Ocean?
William Bowden (University of Vermont). #0902106, $549,581.
Michael Gooseff (Pennsylvania State University [PSU]). #0902029, $373,268.
Wilfred Wollheim (University of New Hampshire). #0902113, $340,920.
How the Timing of Summer Precipitation Affects the Responses of Boreal Forest to Climate Change.
Daniel Mann, T. Scott Rupp, Paul Duffy (University of Alaska Fairbanks [UAF]). #0902169, $797,130.
Elise Pendall (University of Wyoming). #0902180, $149,961.
Andrea Lloyd (Middlebury College). #0902088, $143,937.
Impacts of the Changing Seasonality of Wind-Driven Mixing on the Arctic System.
Luc Rainville, Rebecca Woodgate, Muyin Wang (UW). #0901407, $518,993.
Amala Mahadevan (Boston University). #0901650, $201,559.
Patricia Matrai (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences). #0901438, $104,337.
Pan-Arctic Climate and Ecosystem Response to Historical and Projected Changes in the Seasonality of Sea Ice Melt and Growth.
Bonnie Light (UW). #0902040, $279,690.
Donald Perovich (CRREL). #0902020, $197,188.
Marika Holland (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research [UCAR]). #0902068, $134,733.
Jefferson Moore (University of California Irvine). #0902045, $91,955.
Seasonality of Circumpolar Tundra—Ocean and Atmosphere Controls and Effects on Energy and Carbon Budgets.
Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). #0902152, $358,777.
Uma Bhatt, Donald Walker (UAF). #0902175, $369,016.
Michael Steele (UW). #0902042, $192,833.
Seasons of Change in the Arctic Environment.
Mark Serreze, Tingjun Zhang, Andrew Slater, Oliver Frauenfeld, Kevin Schaefer (University of Colorado Boulder [CU]). #0901962, $862,974.
Shifting Seasonality of Arctic River Hydrology Alters Key Biotic Linkages Among Aquatic Systems.
Linda Deegan, Bruce Peterson (MBL). #0902153, $1,317,687.
Alexander Huryn (University of Alabama Tuscaloosa). #0902126, $307,269.
Shifting Seasonality of Northern Forest Response to Arctic Environmental Change.
Rosanne D'Arrigo, Kevin Anchukaitis (Columbia University). #0902051, $381,154.
Scott Goetz, Pieter Beck (Woods Hole Research Center). #0902056, $221,838.
The Changing Seasonality of Tundra Nutrient Cycling: Implications for Ecosystem and Arctic System Functioning.
Michael Weintraub (University of Toledo). #0902096, $461,684.
Heidemarie Steltzer, Matthew Wallenstein (Colorado State University). #0902030, $409,117.
Joshua Schimel (University of California Santa Barbara). #0902038, $313,386.
Patrick Sullivan (University of Alaska Anchorage). #0902184, $225,072.
Edward Rastetter (MBL). #0902102, $180,926.
The Seasonal Response of the Arctic and Global Climate System to Projected Sea Ice Loss within the Context of GHG-Induced Climate Change.
Clara Deser, Marika Holland, David Lawrence (UCAR). #0902065, $670,103.
Andrew Slater (CU). #0902057, $114,868.
Timing is Everything: Seasonality and Phenological Dynamics Linking Species, Communities, and Trophic Feedbacks in the Low- vs. High-Arctic.
Eric Post, Mads Forchhammer (PSU). #0902125, $363,137.
Tracking the Seasonal Contribution of Algal Fatty Acids to the Arctic Marine System.
Matthew Wooller, Rolf Gradinger, Gay Sheffield, Katrin Iken, Larissa Dehn (UAF). #0902177, $617,856.
Understanding Climate-Driven Phenological Change: Observations, Adaptations, and Cultural Implications in Northeastern Siberia and Labrador/Nunatsiavut.
Susan Crate (George Mason University). #0902146, $620,822.
Astrid Ogilvie (CU). #0902134, $566,517.


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Obama Weak on Religious Freedom? USCIRF Chair, Experts Call for Renewed Effort
In a bipartisan op-ed in the Washington Post, Robert P. George, Republican chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), and Democratic Vice Chair Katrina Lantos Swett, urged the Obama administration to renew its concern about six countries with serious religious freedom problems.
"Although religious freedom is a pivotal human right, critical to national security and global stability, key provisions of the landmark International Religious Freedom Act are being neglected," George and Swett wrote on Tuesday. This 1998 law, which set up USCIRF, requires the State Department to review and designate "Countries of Particular Concern," or CPCs, where religious freedom is being violated, so the U.S. government can take possible diplomatic or economic steps.
"Unfortunately, neither Republican nor Democratic administrations have consistently designated countries that clearly meet the standard for offenders," George and Swett continued. Since the designation only lasts two years, countries designated CPCs in August 2011 must be reviewed and classified by the end of this month.
The op-ed listed six countries up for reclassification: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, and Sudan. Without new designations, the sanctions against these countries will also expire, leaving their violations of religious freedom unpunished.
"This particular administration seems far less concerned about religious freedom issues than have previous ones," said Paul Marshall, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom and author of more than 20 books on religion and politics, to The Christian Post in a Friday interview. He noted the delay in a response to the attacks on Christian churches and other sites last week, in "what some experts in Egypt are saying is the largest Pogrom against Christians in Egypt since the 14th Century."
Marshall explained the reasons why the Obama administration might decide not to renew the designations. In some cases, calling a country a CPC has little effect, so the incentive to do so is small. On the other hand, denouncing a country as a violator of religious freedom may soil diplomacy with that country. If the rewards are small and the costs great, it may seem foolish to renew a CPC designation.
Nevertheless, the scholar sees hope for change in some of these countries. He reported "a real change toward democracy" in Burma, partly as a result of U.S. sanctions – an improvement which will likely continue if the designation is renewed, he argued.
Eritrea shows promise as well, Marshall claimed. Since it is a very poor, weak country, run by a "highly repressive regime," any suggestions by the United States could help it substantially. China, as well, due to its national pride, may make some efforts to disprove the stigma of a CPC.
While Marshall saw little hope for Iran, North Korea, and Sudan, his colleague, Nina Shea, a 30-year international human rights lawyer and director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, was more optimistic. "I think there would be results in all of them, if there was acceptance of CPC analysis and then the proper policy to follow through," she told CP.
Shea pointed to the case of South Sudan as proof that CPC designations make a tremendous difference. "Sudan was the first country that we recommended CPC status for," she recalled, harkening back to her 13 years on USCIRF. The government in northern Sudan imposed Sharia law on the southern part against non-Muslims, she explained. When the south rebelled, the north crushed them with "genocidal levels of persecution." 2 million southerners died, and 5 million were driven into exile.
President Bush appointed former Senator John Danforth as a special envoy to Sudan, and using "a series of sanctions – carrots and sticks," he brokered a peace deal in 2005. The peace agreement ended with a referendum in 2011, which set up an independent country in the south.
According to the State Department's annual Religious Freedom Report for 2012, "there were no reports of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious affiliation, belief, or practice," in South Sudan. Shea admitted that South Sudan still experiences tragic tribal disputes and similar problems to other underdeveloped African countries, but argued that CPC designation and the following sanctions proved a "spectacular success."
Nevertheless, she condemned the current foreign policy focus of the administration. "I think we've gone back to realpolitik – we care about defense and trade, but not human rights, which has been a mainstay of our foreign policy since the Carter period," she said.
While George and Swett praised the administration for developing a working group on religion and foreign policy, as well as a new faith-based office, Marshall thinks that these efforts may actually end up detracting from the administration's focus on international religious freedom issues. He warned that the State Department "may take religious freedom less seriously" because there is a separate office for it.


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by David Crane
DefenseReview has known about the development of this pistol for some time now, but we were politely asked by a Kimber Mil/LE representative not to report anything about it until August 1st. Well, Hilton Yam and some other gentlemen at TacticalForums.com have just posted information about the new Kimber Custom "Warrior" 1911 pistol, which is the civilian-release version of the Kimber ICQB 1911 pistol created for the Marine Corps' MCSOCOM Det 1 unit.
So, DefenseReview is now off the hook. Here's the list of Kimber Warrior 1911 pistol "key features", according to Hilton Yam:…
"Part number 3000125
Series I w/ Kimber rail frame
GI length guide rod and Plug
Internal extractor
Lanyard loop
New Kimber Bumped grip safety. – will look like the Ed Brown
Coyote Brown Gunner grip or similar type G-10 material grip.
New Kimber Wedge Night sight. (Novak style)
New style Kimber ambi safety, utilizing dovetail hammer pin to capture the right side lever
Kimpro polymer finish
7rd. mag w/ pad"
Here's the direct link to Hilton Yam's post:
DefenseReview doesn't have anything to add to what Hilton has posted, at this time.
For the record, DefenseReview recommended to Chris Corino (Kimber's Mil/Le Manager) many months ago that Kimber offer the ICQB/MCSOCOM Det 1 1911 pistol to civilians, since we much prefer Kimber's original Series 1 safety system, and the ICQB/MCSOCOM Det. 1 looked like a really nice package.
It's important to note that unlike the actual ICQB/MCSOCOM Det 1 pistol, the Kimber Warrior 1911 pistol will utilize the same integral frame rail as their Kimber Custom TLE/RL II.
According to Hilton, delivery of the Kimber Custom Warrior 1911 pistol is scheduled to begin in about 90 days. It's not yet known whether the Kimber Warrior pistol will be a limited-run or full-production gun. Hilton also has this to say about the new gun, "if everything falls together right, this could be THE choice for an out of the box duty grade 1911. I'm very pleased that Kimber is going to proceed with this project, it will be a welcome addition to the light rail 1911 market."
That's pretty high praise, coming from Hilton Yam.


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